Western History Subject Index

[Wheeler & Hayden] "The names given by the surveys are often different. As the_U.S.G.S. which remapped the region, is.under the Department of the Interior, it chose the Hayden names, and the Geographic Board on that account has decreed against the Wheeler names. Among the latter were Blaine, Glacier, Chalk, Cerro Blanco, Three Tetons (and others) for fourteen thousand foot Peaks." 14,000 p.2 [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet: a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks." Denver, Colorado Mountain Club, 1925]

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[Wheeler & Hayden] "The names given by the surveys are often different. As the_U.S.G.S. which remapped the region, is.under the Department of the Interior, it chose the Hayden names, and the Geographic Board on that account has decreed against the Wheeler names. Among the latter were Blaine, Glacier, Chalk, Cerro Blanco, Three Tetons (and others) for fourteen thousand foot Peaks." 14,000 p.2 [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet: a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks." Denver, Colorado Mountain Club, 1925]